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de Gournay at Kips Bay 2018

Every year, some of America’s most celebrated interior designers transform a luxury Manhattan home into an elegant exhibition of fine furnishings, art and technology. Established in 1973 to raise funds for a much needed after school and enrichment program for New York City children, several dedicated supporters of the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club launched the Kips Bay Decorator Show House. Over the course of four decades, the project has grown into a must-see event for thousands of design enthusiasts and is renowned for sparking interior design trends throughout the world.

de Gournay is proud to have teamed up with three designers at this years’ Show House – Alexa Hampton, Wesley Moon and Scott Sanders.

Alexa Hampton

Since Alexa Hampton took the reins from Mark Hampton, her father’s iconic firm, as owner and president in 1998, she has advanced its legacy of elegant, practical, classically based interiors from modern living – and extended its global reach. With her working around the USA to China, Alexa is able to translate the classical principles of good design and decoration into some of today’s motifs elegant domestic landscapes.

Alexa showcased ‘Olympia Folly’ on scenic paper in the Living Room. ‘Olympia Folly’, part of the Papier Peints Panoramiques collection, has a surrounding backdrop of soft hanging textiles with an idealized view of Greek temples emerging, framed by Aleppo pines and Cypress trees. In the foreground are discarded Roman helmets and a propped-up shield. The interior furnishings of her Mediterranean oasis are in keeping with the wallpaper, filled with visual tropes; animal skin patterns evoking the hunt with rich, sumptuous fabrics and trimmings, fit for a king. Nods to empire building are sprinkled throughout, as are the classics of the Classics: temple fronts and a Klismos chair.

Scott Sanders

Founded in 2000, Scott Sanders LLC, is a New York City and Hampton-based design firm, specialising in residential and hospitality interiors. Scott’s passion for interior design and his signature ‘New American Style’ results in memorable spaces, which at once are both elegant and approachable.

The Powder Room is decorated with de Gournay’s new ‘Labrado’ design in Bas Relief on Deep Rich Gold gilded paper with custom antiquing which has been painted to replicate the look of tooled Moroccan leather. ‘A Powder Room with Personality’, Scott chose a decidedly masculine, ‘gentleman's library’ aesthetic for the essential powder room, hence the tooled leather wallpaper. The space is both tailored yet moody, with distinctive elements carefully selected to ensure appeal to either sex.

Wesley Moon

Wesley Moon’s expertise encompasses all aspects of interior design and decoration, including architecture and construction management, as well as custom furnishings and textiles. His network of resources includes top craftspeople and artisans.

Wesley’s space is made up of three separate rooms - the Wet Bar, the Butler's Pantry, and the Elevator Landing, which is a transitional space. His goal was to create one cohesive design to unify all three areas while still maintaining the purpose of each, and to force all three spaces equally into the public domain. The walls are sheathed in faint gold de Gournay wallpaper. The de Gournay ‘Alto’ design, in Breccia colourway, has a beautiful Ombre effect on metallic silk. The elevator landing is a small but highly visible space, which holds its own against two elaborate rooms.